Poetry

Saturday, Feb 11, 2012 4:29 pm

“This Poem” appears in Anathalie Jean-Louis’s recent poetry collection She Speaks, © 2011, Books of Hope, a literacy empowerment program in Somerville, Mass., that brings creative writing workshops to at-risk urban and immigrant youth to foster and promote the next generation of young authors. Jean-Louis is currently a freshman at Bunker Hill Community College, where she is studying biology.  She can be reached at jeanlouisanathalie@gmail.com.

It’s gonna be the jump-off of the decade

Hands clappin’,

Feet stompin’

Screams ‘n shouts

Craziness, I tell you

Craziness

Like damn

This poem is gunna be tight

Like dudes pulling up they pants, ain’t seeing them

      boxers hanging out no more

Gurlz ain’t gunna have  them donut rolls poppin’

      out no more

This poem is gunna be so tight

Mom dukes won’t be waking u up in the morning

     rashin’

Instead, this poem gunna be finding that fresh

     scent of bacon and sausage in the air

     waiting for u on the kitchen table

 This poem  be passionate sex while the raindrops

     hit the windowsill  ‘n the breeze

     coming through that open crack of ur window

This poem be brand new kicks ‘n fresh pair of socks

 This poem will change everything

It’s gunna be the jump-off of the decade

Hands clappin’

Feet stompin’

Craziness, I tell you

Craziness

Like damn

This poem is gunna be tight